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- EDITGAME.DOC
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- (* *)
- (* The Generic Adventure Game System (tm) *)
- (* Copyright 1985, 1986 by Mark J. Welch *)
- (* All Rights Reserved *)
- (* *)
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- EDITGAME.COM is an automatic game editor for games used with the Generic
- Adventure Game System. Its function is to clean up the game file and, if
- desired, make it much more readable and understandably organized.
-
- Like ADVENT.COM, EDITGAME.COM has two "modes." By default, it simply
- creates a file with the room, noun, and creature definitions in order,
- with minimal spacing. If the /d (diagnostics) mode is selected, it
- echoes some information to the screen -- particularly noting lines it
- ignores -- and creates a much more informative output file.
-
- The major enhancement is that by using the /d option, rooms are
- identified by name in the output file within noun and other room
- definitions. The standard output would show a room's exits as:
-
- NORTH 13
- WEST 8
-
- But the /d option uses the room names as well:
-
- NORTH 13 - Bedroom
- WEST 8 - Bathroom
-
-
-
- EDITGAME is not yet interactive: it processes a file and creates an output
- file without any intervention, and a text editor must be used to make
- changes to the data file. Its output file is a standard GAGS data file,
- but with the extension .DA2 instead of .DAT, so that edited files are
- easily recognized.
-
- Invocation is similar to ADVENT.COM:
-
- EDITGAME UNDERGND
- or
- EDITGAME UNDERGND /d
-
-
- The input data file must have a suffix of .DAT and the output file will
- always have the suffix .DA2.
-
- - Mark Welch, 11/28/85
-
- Added Note 1-12-86:
- EDITGAME is now implemented as an interactive editor. In version
- 1E, you can examine and alter room, noun, and creature definitions.
- Version 1C of EDITGAME supports some extra features of GAGS 1.06
- which aren't included in GAGS 1.05, so GAGS 1.05 may produce warning
- messages when reading a data file produce by EDITGAME. Version 1.06
- of GAGS is finished, and will be released Real Soon Now.
-
-
- Mark J. Welch
- P.O. Box 2409
- San Francisco, CA 94126
- (415) 845-2430
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